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Houston Astros<\/a> (79-68, first in the AL West) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (65-81, fourth in the NL East)<\/p>\n Atlanta; Friday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: TBD; Braves: Hurston Waldrep<\/a> (4-0, 1.33 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 38 strikeouts)<\/p>\n BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Astros -135, Braves +113; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves host the Houston Astros on Friday to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n Atlanta has a 65-81 record overall and a 35-37 record in home games. The Braves have a 19-34 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n Houston has a 79-68 record overall and a 36-36 record on the road. The Astros have the eighth-best team ERA in MLB<\/a> play at 3.85.<\/p>\n Friday’s game is the first meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Michael Harris II<\/a> has 22 doubles, six triples, 17 home runs and 79 RBIs for the Braves. Ozzie Albies<\/a> is 12 for 39 with a double, a triple and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Yainer Diaz<\/a> has 22 doubles, a triple, 19 home runs and 63 RBIs for the Astros. Carlos Correa<\/a> is 13 for 44 with two doubles and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 4-6, .215 batting average, 4.64 ERA, outscored by 20 runs<\/p>\n Astros: 4-6, .244 batting average, 4.10 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Braves: Sean Murphy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Austin Riley: 60-Day IL (abdominal), Aaron Bummer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Grant Holmes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), AJ Smith-Shawver<\/a>: 60-Day IL (calf\/elbow), Reynaldo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n Astros: Luis Garcia<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kaleb Ort<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Arrighetti<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), John Rooney<\/a>: 60-Day IL (concussion \/ nasal), Brendan Rodgers<\/a>: 60-Day IL (oblique), Pedro Leon<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Bennett Sousa<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Josh Hader<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Isaac Paredes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Zach Dezenzo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand), Ronel Blanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hayden Wesneski<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n \n What did you think of this story?\n <\/p>\n \n recommended\n <\/p>\n Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n Item 1 of 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Houston Astros (79-68, first in the AL West) vs. Atlanta Braves (65-81, fourth in the NL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-138203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}